The Princess of Wales is set to embark on her first official overseas engagement since completing cancer treatment, with a visit to northern Italy next week. Kate will travel to Reggio Emilia to observe how local communities, in the aftermath of the Second World War, ingeniously repurposed abandoned military equipment, including a tank, to establish a globally influential model of early-years education. The visit will highlight the origins of the renowned "Reggio Emilia approach." Following the war, residents – many of them women – financed some of Italy’s inaugural nursery schools by selling scrap metal salvaged from equipment left behind by retreating German forces. These pioneering efforts laid the groundwork for the educational philosophy, which is now influential worldwide and aligns closely with Kate’s focus on children’s social and emotional wellbeing. The wife of the heir to the throne, Prince William, and mother of three, launched the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood in 2021.…